Facilitators
Tuesday, June 22, 12:15 - 1:45, Room 2746	Wednesday, June 23, 8:00 - 9:30, Room 2726
Wednesday, June 23, 8:00 - 9:30, Room 2742M	Wednesday, June 23, 12:15 - 1:45, Room 2744
	Thursday, June 24, 12:15 - 1:45, Room 2728
Paul Irvine Teacher Consultant: Instructional Technology Instructional Media Center, IMC	Michelle Ruggles Business Education Teacher Bradford High School

Wikis

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What Is a Wiki?

A wiki is a website which enables documents to be written collaboratively in a simple mark-up language using a web browser. The defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. Most wikis are open to the general public for them to make amendments or contributions.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

"Wikis in Plain English" from TeacherTube

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=2219&title=Wikis_in_Plain_English

KUSD Wiki Guidelines

Be sure to follow the district's guidelines when using a wiki for school.

KUSD Wiki Guidelines.pdf

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Here are the guidelines in a nutshell.

1. The wiki is for professional purposes only.
2. The wiki cannot be accessible to the general public. In Wikispaces, this means a private wiki.
3. Access must be password protected.
4. External links are subject to district filtering.
5. User-created content is preferred. Content from other sources must adhere to copyright regulations (http://www.kusd.edu/departments/instructional_technology/copyright_resources.html) and be cited properly.
6. The wiki name identifies the district, the school, and the teacher(s) (e.g., KUSDLincolnSmith).
7. Student usernames do not contain their ID or their name in full.
8. No personal student information in published on the wiki.
9. Student work can be identified by first name and possibly the last name initial but no full last names.
10. Student photos, videos, audio recordings, etc., do not identify individual students.
11. Published email addresses are restricted to staff and generic classroom addresses (i.e., no published student email addresses).

Wikispaces Offer for K-12 Education

In January 2006, Wikispaces began offering our Plus Plan for free for K-12 education. If your wiki will be used exclusively for K-12 education, you can begin your ad-free, private Wikispace by registering at http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers.

If you already have a Wikispace but didn't register it under our K-12 Plan, Click "Manage Space" then "Subscription" then under "Request a complimentary upgrade to Plus for K-12 education" click "Request yours now".

Look and Feel of Your Wiki

You can choose what colors you wiki will display, as well as some layout features.

1. Click . The link's location varies according to the selected theme.
2. Under Settings, click Look & Feel.
3. Click Themes & Colors.
4. There are several themes for you to select. When you click a theme:
   • The name of the theme and a short description are provided.
   • Examine the enlarged thumbnail illustration for the layout and placement of elements.
   • Color schemes are provided, but not all themes have the same color scheme choices. Click a color scheme and then the Apply button to see what the page looks like. You can also click Preview and Customize to see what the colors look like when applied to the them and you change change colors for some of the theme's elements. Different themes have different color elements that can be changed.

Edit a Page

• Click Edit. Where this link is located and what it looks like varies according to the theme.
• Save and Save often!
  
• You can also Cancel if you change your mind.

Editor Tool Bar

Use the Editor tool bar to make changes and add elements to a wiki page.

Text

• You type on the wiki page much like word processing. The Editor bar provides some text formatting options.
  
  
• Select (highlight) the text and then apply text formatting.
• The first 3 buttons: Bold, Italics, Underline.
• Click the text tool for more text formatting options.
  
• Click the drop-down menu to formatting headings.
  

Links

• You can create links to web pages.
  1. You will need the web address (URL) of the site.
     If it's short and you know it, it can just be typed in.
     Otherwise, navigate to the web site from a bookmark or WWW search, highlight the URL, and copy it.
  2. On the wiki page, type the text for web page, like Lit2Go.
  3. Highlight the text (e.g., Lit2Go) and click the Insert Link button.
  4. Select the External Link tab.
     In the Address box, type or paste the URL.
     If you want the browser to open the web site in a new window or new tab, check New Window. Your link will look like this: Lit2Go.

• You can create a link to other pages in your wiki.
  1. Type the text for the wiki page.
  2. Highlight the text and click the Insert Link button.
  3. On the Wiki Link tab, if the page already exists click Choose an existing page and choose one of the pages from the drop down. Otherwise, click Add Link and the page will be created and the link will look like this: New Page.
     Note: The link will be red until the page is edited.

Adding Images and Documents

You can add images to wiki pages. You can also include files like Word and PowerPoint documents for downloading by the wiki's members. First, you upload the files to Wikispaces and then you add them to the page. Any file formats can be used. The free wikis for education offer is a "Plus Plan," so you have 2 GB of storage and a maximum per file upload size limit of 20 MB.

1. In Edit mode, place the cursor in the place on the page where you want the image or document to be located.
2. In the Editor bar, click the Insert Images and Files button.
3. Select the Insert Files tab.
4. Click the + Upload Files button, select the file, and click Select. Wait for the uploading to finish.
5. Simply double-click the icon of the uploaded file to place the image or document on the page.

Changing the Wiki Name

When you first create a new wiki, the "name" you enter becomes the first part of the wiki address and it's also the name entered in the header area. You probably don't want this name at the top. Here's how to change it.

1. Click . The link's location varies according to the selected theme.
2. Under Settings, click Wiki Info.
3. In the Name box, enter whatever you'd like to appear at the top of each wiki page as the wiki name. You do not need to change the domain name, which the "name" in the wiki address (URL).

Discussion Tab

You can create blog-like discussions on your wiki. Each page has a Discussion tab and you can have multiple discussions per page.

1. Click the Discussion tab.
2. Enter a subject for the discussion, like Wiki Uses.
3. Enter a message. This could be a question you pose or a statement to which participants react.
4. If you want to be notified whenever a response is posted, check "Monitor this topic."
5. Click the Post button.

To post a reply to a message:

1. Click the Discussion Tab.
2. DO NOT enter a subject and message! This creates a new discussion.
3. There is a list of discussion topics at the top. Below is the list from our first EETT Grant inservice. Click the subject link for the topic.
4. The first item at the top is your original posting with your discussion information in the message. The student should read this.
5. The student scrolls down the page, where they can read previous postings. At the bottom of the page in the Reply section the student enters his/her response in the message box and clicks the Post button.

User Creator

You need to give your students access to the wiki. To do this, you create a list of usernames and passwords for them.

1. Create a list to upload to Wikispaces. Create the list in a word processing program. Below are the directions from Wikispaces Help.
   NOTE: You do NOT have to include the email address. Username and password are sufficient.

How do I format the list for bulk account creation?

To create accounts easily, format your list in the following manner with commas separating usernames, email addresses (if you have them - if you don't just leave them out), and passwords:

• user1,email1@address.com,password1
  user2,email2@address.com,password2
  user3,email3@address.com,password3

A few important notes that will help us create these accounts for you quickly:

• Usernames
• We have a large number of accounts on Wikispaces, so many combinations of first names, last names, and initials are already taken. It's much more likely all the accounts can be made as you ask if you add a school identifier to your students' usernames. For example, if your school is called John Smith High, instead of asking us for the usernames, adam, james, and dom, we recommend jsh-adam, jsh-james, and jsh-dom.
• Length of Usernames and Passwords
• Please make sure that usernames are at least 3 characters long (we allow letters, numbers, underscores _, or dashes -) and that passwords are at least 6 characters long.
• Which Wiki?
• Finally, if you are sending us the list, make sure to let us know which wikis we should add them to as members.

1. Select (highlight) the entire list and Edit > Copy.
2. Click . The link's location varies according to the selected theme.
3. Under People, click .
4. Under "Which wikis do you want to add users to?" select the wiki(s) for which this group of students need access.
5. For "How would you like to enter your list?" select "I will paste in a text list...."
6. Click in the box and Edit > Paste.
7. Click Continue.
8. Answer these questions.
   
   1st question: IF the list has a header because you exported the list from another program, the answer is Yes. Otherwise, answer No.
   2nd question: Column 1.
   3rd question: "These users do not have email addresses."
   4th question: Column 2.
9. Click Continue.
10. Check the usernames and passwords on the Verification page. If all is correct, click Continue. If not, click Back and correct errors.
11. Print the confirmation page for your records. You should also receive a confirmation email.